it's time for show off Sunday, where everyone has a chance to show off their
own car and here's this week's winner, truly JDM car only sold in Japan for
Japanese people and for Japanese roads this is the Daihatsu move custom 2014
it's a small Kei car which starts around 1.5 million yen that's $13,000 which is
cheap compared to regular cars, it's a company fully owned by Scotty
I mean Toyota
so today I'm going to show you the interesting quirks and features that we
can find with the move custom 2014 after that I'm going to drive
around see how it feels to drive a kei car, under the hood you say 658 CC
water-cooled in-line 3 cylinder dual overhead cam 12 valve intercooled turbo
mated with a CVT that does around 20 kilometers per liter for 50 miles per
gallon and in front it has a four led low beam headlights, LED
position lights, and tail lights halogen for high beam and fogs and an
incandescent reverse light and turn signal for the rear and front blinkers,
this particular model is equipped with an optional aluminum wheels with a 15565 14-inch
studless tires, it also has an automatic folding side mirrors which
opens when you start the car and closes when you lock the door from the outside
now let's check out the inside of the Daihatsu Move custom 2014, as you can see
the door opens a very wide 90 degrees and the front seats are actually bench
type, so you can go from here to here without any problem or you can also see
it here, but apparently that's illegal but apparently again, let's go inside and
I have to move custom 2014 and see what quality materials we have for this cheap
car let's start by shutting the door, sounds good
it's old an old platform so still sounds pretty solid for its price,
and the steering wheel says Momo small leather wrapped start button is located
here with the traction control, and eco idle button, to start
the car just press on the brake pedal and the start button just like any other
cars, and it starts up and you can hear the three cylinder engine from inside it's
not that loud, so the cup holders here in front of
the air con you just have to press split up and on the dash we have an analog for
the tachometer and speedometer, digital panel for the trip and odometer outside
temperature and mileage and other warnings and status, and shift levers on
the dashboard the different modes with sports and engine brake mode, single zone
climate control is also here and above is the navigation system with
Android auto and apple carplay if you want you can just always replace
this with an aftermarket head unit easily anyways this is an old car, below
we'll find only one 12-volt plug this has a small battery so there's no USB
charger you have to buy an aftermarket unit charge for that, below that there's
also place to put anything here which is not padded and nowhere there's charging, for
the glove compartment for this car size it's very small it only has enough room
for one manual and on top there's also a place for you to place your tissues,
and for the door panels looking at here we have the place to control the side
mirrors, the windows, but there's only one automatic control for the windows here,
and if you have a child you can lock the windows, here's the lock switch and this
is not metal this is plastic the materials are all textured hard plastics
and of course piano black near the places where we touch most often, so they
can spy on our fingerprints it's a conspiracy I know,
they want our fingerprints, just listen to the plastic, plastic everywhere, you
won't find anything soft here besides the seats and even the steering really
wheel is hard, it's very hard even a steering wheel and the ebrake is down there along
with the other pedals and the center console where the armrest, it's also hard
and don't expect much this is a cheap car let's check out the back, so like the four
other doors it opens very like 90 degrees, so as you can see
there's not much you can place here at the back, you can actually fold this
easily just like that so it will just not just double but I think it will
quadruple the space here at the back, and
there's also space here, like there's a lot of stuff here, there's no spare tire
you only have you only gets a quick fix here, it actually has a small lip here so
you can sit here but it doesn't but the
door doesn't open like this, so when it's raining you can actually wait for
someone like this, and just to show you I'm 5 feet 5 inches, I can fit here but
apparently I can't sleep here, here's another interesting
quirks here for a kei car, what you can do here is to move the seat forward back
seat, very back, you remove the head and rest here, put it somewhere and just do
this and you'll be able to relax in your car
so if you have a very long legs you can actually drive like this from here, so I
can imagine that if you're in a path you're the passenger like what you can do
is when you're traveling far away you can
just tell your driver to drive while you relax like this, if you want you can also
use the seatbelts here while you relax and now we're going to try and ride
around in this small kei car on small Japanese roads, so you can see the
turning radius is so small you can actually make a u-turn with just a
small street, the steering is also very light but since this has the studless
right now it's a bit hard, as you can see the roads here are very small and narrow,
so in case there's some other car coming you have someone's gotta back out, this
also has the eco idle so when you're when you're stopped at the traffic the
engine will shut off, road imperfections is not going to come through here
because the because usually kei cars are made for comfort, so the spring is very
soft the shock absorption is very
good, road noise I mean you can't hear much of the sound from the outside, you
can't make it, you see that's the problem with eco idle, you know I should have been
able to make that turn already there's not much road noise, you can hear
a bit of the sound from the outside and that's a
sports kei car, that was the Move Custom 2014, hope you liked it
come visit Japan to experience the real Japanese car culture like no other, and
here's a bonus clip for the mini fest in 2018, the small 50 cc
custom motorbike culture of Japan thanks for watching,
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